funwithfuel
Senior Member
Good luck on your new gig. Hope it works out well for you. Will you be enrolled in their THINK BIG program?
If they haven’t mentioned it so far, ask.......Good luck on your new gig. Hope it works out well for you. Will you be enrolled in their THINK BIG program?
So what is the hourly wage Ziegler is starting you at?
The Think Big training is all done on-line AFAIK. You take the modules as and when you have time available to do them.
The Think Big training is all done on-line AFAIK. You take the modules as and when you have time available to do them.
And they already brought up the john deere sticker on my toolbox lol. Unfortunately it's an adhesive type sticker that will take some paint with it lol.
You never stop! Continuing education is key to sustainability. For you to remain marketable, you have to be current. Don't get left behind.
And thats a crying shame. Current technology should always be kept currentThis was one of the things that bugged me about where I worked. For the first say 30 years training was considered important. About half the guys in the shop each year would be sent to a weeks training at one of the manufactures, Cat, Cummins, Mack, and so on. Then at least once a year they would bring in someone, maybe a dealer or parts supplier to give a two day seminar at out shop, often this included mechanics from other branches of the company in the state.
Then new "management" came along that had the idea that training was a "expense" and not an "investment" and the major goal was to cut expenses any way he could! About the only thing that came close to "training" was getting to attend what I felt was more of a sales pitch for Cat ET than actual training on how to make full use of it. Maybe three hours in class room and another hour or so wandering around out in the yard playing with the machines, five or six guys to a laptop and one instructor for a class total of about thirty students!
Nothing so far about the think big program. I don't think I could go back to school honestly. I got the basics at the john deere program so hopefully the in house training will get me where I need to be.
The C15 and ISX were new tech when i got out of road trucks.